PhysOrg looks back (via the James Webb Space Telescope) to when the universe was a quarter of its current age, and has been able to see young galaxies stretching out into shapes like our own… Read the rest “Webb snaps Milky Way-like galaxies taking shape long, long ago.”
This is how you advertise a science book. At least, it was how Hugo Gernsback did in the pages of The Electrical Experimenter in September 1916. Is that figure in the middle Hephaestus or is… Read the rest “Science Art: Experimental Electricity Course, 1916.”
EurekAlert presents the findings of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s John DeLong, who has found the first known virovore – a microorganism that feeds on viruses:
… Read the rest “Nebraska researcher identifies the first known virus-eating organism.”DeLong and
Thanks to an unexpected gift from an old friend, I was just reading an article in the print edition of Scientific American about the Sora people of eastern India, who have a unique culture … Read the rest “Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922”
MedPage Today maps the correlation between riding fast and free and donating your young organs to people who need them:
… Read the rest “Motorcycle rallies are a boon … for people waiting for organ donors.”Compared with the 4 weeks before and after rallies, there was an estimated
The Guardian reveals research into the private lives of lady snakes, which has found that those things human scientists thought might be scent glands or underdeveloped penises were actually… Read the rest “Female snakes have two clitorises.”
Defector (not just a sports blog) reports on a zoological discovery – that turtles have been vocalizing all along, but we’ve only realized they had voices in the last couple… Read the rest “Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.”
Uranium, which produces 3 million times more energy and 10 million times less waste!
I honestly have no idea if this PSA is real or a sarcastic reproduction. It could easily have gone with … Read the rest “Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,”
BBC reports on new research reconstructing the sounds of the dinosaurs, the honks, hoots, chirps, and vibrating grunts that the giant creatures used to communicate millions of years ago… Read the rest “Dinosaurs had songs. Not so much roaring as something more melodic.”
This is a NASA-released image of a very important piece of space technology. That small, color-corrected orange thing is a tiny plush Snoopy doll used to measure relative weightlessness… Read the rest “Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022”
Nature reports on the gaps in information that mean the official counts of people who died as a result of COVID-19 are much, much lower than the real numbers:
… Read the rest “More people died of COVID-19 than we know. Or ever will know. Because data is missing.”The [Nature and WHO] data suggest
EurekAlert reveals new evidence of an age long before the dinosaurs, a primeval world 470 million years ago when the world was ruled by giant swimming arthropods. Like, the same family as… Read the rest “Millions of years ago, when Earth was ruled by giant… crabs?”
Nature asks a question that doesn’t have an easy answer. Medical implants – especially newer ones that interface directly with your brain – are designed for the long… Read the rest “What do you do when your neurological-implant company goes under?”
Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place usually seen as a sort of paradise on Earth –… Read the rest “Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol”
Science is not a publication normally given to interpersonal conflict. But now it’s covering the story of the weird competition between Robert DePalma and Melanie During, who suspects… Read the rest “Paleontology drama: Scientist accused of faking asteroid-death data to scoop colleague.”
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